Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quotes About Earth

Quotes about: Earth

• Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Faith, Autumn, Shoes

  'Aurora Leigh' (1857) bk. 7, l. 821

• How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort, in a hospital.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Simple, Comfort, Earth

  'Aurora Leigh' (1857) bk. 3, l. 1121

• Enough! we're tired, my heart and I. We sit beside the headstone thus, And wish that name were carved for us. The moss reprints more tenderly The hard types of the mason's knife, As Heaven's sweet life renews earth's life With which we're tired, my heart and I .... In this abundant earth no doubt Is little room for things worn out: Disdain them, break them, throw them by! And if before the days grew rough We once were loved, used, - well enough, I think, we've fared, my heart and I.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Sweet, Tired, Heart

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)”, p.1259, Delphi Classics

• Earth's crammed with Heaven.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Faith, Heaven, Earth

  'Aurora Leigh' (1857) bk. 7, l. 821

• They say that God lives very high! But if you look above the pines You cannot see our God. And why? And if you dig down in the mines You never see Him in the gold, Though from Him all that's glory shines. God is so good, He wears a fold Of heaven and earth across His face - Like secrets kept, for love, untold. But still I feel that His embrace Slides down by thrills, through all things made, Through sight and sound of every place: As if my tender brother laid On my shut lids, her kisses' pressure, Half waking me at night; and said, "Who kissed through the dark, dear guesser?"

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Life, Brother, Dark

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1870). “Poems of the Intellect and the Affections”, p.64

• I would build a cloudy House For my thoughts to live in; When for earth too fancy-loose And too low for Heaven! Hush! I talk my dream aloud - I build it bright to see, - I build it on the moonlit cloud, To which I looked with thee.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Dream, Clouds, House

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)”, p.665, Delphi Classics

• In this abundant earth no doubt Is little room for things worn out: Disdain them, break them, throw them by! And if before the days grew rough We once were lov'd, us'd -- well enough, I think, we've far'd, my heart and I.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Heart, Thinking, Doubt

• Through heaven and earth
  God's will moves freely, and I follow it,
  As color follows light. He overflows
  The firmamental walls with deity,
  Therefore with love; His lightnings go abroad,
  His pity may do so, His angels must,
  Whene'er He gives them charges.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Wall, Moving, Angel

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “The Poetical Works of”, p.28

• Sing, seraph with the glory! heaven is high.
  Sing, poet with the sorrow! earth is low.
  The universe's inward voices cry
  "Amen" to either song of joy and woe.
  Sing, seraph, poet! sing on equally!

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Song, Voice, Joy

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1856). “Poems”, p.260

• Earth may embitter, not remove,
  The love divinely given;
  And e'en that mortal grief shall prove
  The immortality of love,
  And lead us nearer heaven.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Grief, Heaven, Sorrow

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1838). “The seraphim, and other poems, by E.B. Barrett”, p.360

• We overstate the ills of life, and take Imagination... down our earth to rake.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Imagination, Rakes, Earth

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.84

• O Earth, so full of dreary noises!
  O men, with wailing in your voices!
  O delved gold, the wader's heap!
  O strife, O curse, that o'er it fall!
  God makes a silence through you all,
  And "giveth His beloved, sleep.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Death, Fall, Sleep

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